On view at MoMA PS1 through March 24
Africa is unmistakably among the few direct references to global culture in this show, which covers Lemon’s work from roughly the past two decades. But it’s his encounters with American culture that really seem to grip him, as is evident in a recent and continuing series of large ink-and-paint drawings. There’s also a quick picker-upper in his body-and-mind-blaster of a performance video called “Rant (redux).” In it, eight stellar dancers leap, dive, writhe and vogue to a high-decibel score by the artist Kevin Beasley, while Lemon himself, the work’s choreographer, shout-reads words by Angela Davis and other liberationist thinkers. Read the full review by Holland Cotter.
– Holland Cotter